Lord, we trust in You. You are everything to us for the purpose of making us the same as You are in life and in nature but not in Your Godhead. We thank You for this. We worship You.
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered on your behalf, leaving you a model so that you may follow in His steps;
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Lit., a writing copy, an underwriting (used by students to trace letters and thereby learn to draw them). The Lord has set His suffering life before us so that we can copy it by (tracing) and following His (steps). This does not refer to a mere (imitation) of Him and His life but to a reproduction of Him that comes from enjoying Him as (grace) in our sufferings (see note 191) so that He Himself as the (indwelling) Spirit, with all the riches of His life, reproduces Himself in us. We become the (reproduction) of the original writing copy, not a mere imitation of Him produced by taking Him as our outward (model). (See 1 Pet. 2:21 note 2)
